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It's best to watch Pitch Black as a stand alone movie. There were no sequels to this awesome flick.

My list (some a repeats)

1) Elfyness is next to goodliness.
2) Dwarves love beer and their beards.
3) Elves are natural Dwarf rivals.
4) There's a Drow behind every evil plot.
5) Everyone meets in a tavern.
6) The greatest of all kobolds is lucky to make it to 6th level.
7) Minotaur = Maze
8) Giant humanoids are dumb.
9) Only a few non-humanoids have major nations. (Why can't the war for global domination still be raging on.)
10) Its not for us so it must be evil.
11) The main bad guy is evil. (Why can't he just be on a different side? Not misunderstood, just born and raised with different loyalties than you. Honorable in intentions and tactics, but will still kill you because our two nations are at war.)
12) Draconic alignments are easily tellable by the shininess of their scales.
13) Good vs Evil.

As a player of a non-evil necromancer i can but say, Pish-posh. I think it is neither original or new, but rather steeped in literary tradition and gothic romance. It is a nod of the head to hollow one, euthanatos, Foxglove form Death: The Time of Your Life, Dr. Frankenstien, 19th century spiritualists and many other cool thing. And I am still the only person i know personally who has played one in DnD, so i am happy with that.

Story by Dale C. McCoy, Jr.

The clash of swords rang out across the courtyard. All those looking down from the tower saw the valor of their fighting men and women, but it became quickly obvious that their forces were woefully outnumbered.

Religion is meant for the masses, not the clerics and the paladins alone. While not everyone can cast divine spells, anyone can live a life dedicated to their god and anyone can pray. Now, the gods listen when your character prays.

Book of the Faithful: Power of Prayer gives you ideas for your next Pathfinder character. Concept ranging from the newly converted to the those that lived their whole lives surrounded by their faith to those seeking to learn an aspect of their faith more deeply than they had before. Additionally there are seventeen new feats, a new magic item and three pieces of equipment ideal for the faithful seeker's enlightenment and protection.

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Voting ends tomorrow. Hurry over to jonbrazer.com to vote before time runs out. The winner will be announced Sunday.

If all those that sent in an entry could send me an email at "dalecmccoyjr AT hotmail DOT com" with your entry so I can send the winner their prize.

Voting ends Saturday. Vote before time runs out. And for all you Americans, vote in your local elections today.

Nominations are now closed. Please come to jonbrazer.com to vote for your favorite name from the top choices.

Today is the last day to suggest an idea. I'll be picking my favorites and making a poll out of them late tonight or early tomorrow.

I think I like Flamebreather - a body made of flame that gouts forth from its mouth when it moves or attacks.

Hey - how would I reach you if I developed a full idea and wanted to concede the name portion of the contest?

So... anyone with Catch-off-guard and a torch... is a troll killer.

Catch-off-guard makes you proficient with improvised weapons. A torch is a one-handed improvised weapon that deals damage as a gauntlet of its size.

You could deal 1d3 (medium torch) + STR and 1/2 damage + 1 fire if you just two-handed a torch.

or

Use two-weapon fighting + Catch-off-guard and Double Slash with a torch and another weapon... say a dagger as a light weapon.

Sorry to give you some bad news about this.

Shall we list all the blogs we know that discuss Pathfinder (either regularly or semi regularly). Not the individual entries, just the main site.

First the obvious one: Paizo's Blog (discussing all things Pathfinder).
Second, my own: Brazer Blog on ENWorld (currently talking about how the PFRPG Bard plays from actual play experience).

Any others? Give us a link to your own Pathfinder blog.

Example: You have a rogue and a troll in combat. The rogue's player has played 3.x and assumes he knows what to do with a troll. He learns as he goes.

Rogue - I sneak attack the Troll with a dagger and I bleed him.
Troll - I take damage, I heal some and I am not bleeding. I hit you back.
Rogue - I hide and sneak attack the Troll with a bottle of acid and I bleed him.
Troll - I take damage, do not heal any and I am bleeding. I hit you back.
Rogue - I hide again, decide to save my last acid for later, sneak attack the Troll with a dagger and I bleed him.
Troll - I take damage, heal some again and I am no longer bleeding. I hit you back.
Rogue - I yank off my largest fireball from my necklace and toss it down the troll's throat. I miss, but it goes off infront of his face.
Troll - OUCH!!! And falls over. He hasn't hit full negative con yet, but he is out cold. No regeneration for the troll.
Rogue - I kick him. I do sneak attack with that; he's prone and helpless.
Troll - He regenerates some damage.
Rogue - Oh crap. Rogue pulls out his last bottle of acid and sneak attacks the troll's exposed, still-beating heart.
Troll - Ok, I'm dead already. Enough. Stop please.

What has happened to the Nightcrawler and the Nightwalker? They are not in the book. Are they restricted monsters too?

As others have said, APPLAUSE, WHISTLES. The Bestiary is wonderful guys. Thank you.

No....you don't get it....."Bernie.....burn-y....." aaaah, nevermind.

Bernie.

Maybe you should pick the five or six you like best and see what people vote for. Make it a contest.

I gotta admit. There are alot of good names in this thread so far. Please keep them coming; make my job hard.

As a sci-fi publisher, might I suggest somethings to avoid.

• Gigantic reasonably stable empires. Players tend to not feel they can make a major difference. With smaller regional powers, players can quickly from freight haulers to notable persons.
  
• Freight hauling is the default game. Good to make a few extra bucks on the side, but people don't play D&D so they can produce magic items.
  
• Exploration/Military is the default game. Good for Star Trek, boring for playing. Its not all that fun to be ordered around by another character.
  
• Elves in space nuff said.
  
• Alignments be system integral It's fine for D&D/Pathfinder. Its fine for Star Wars. But that's pretty much where system integral alignments as a good idea ends. I'm not saying throw out alignments; they're fine for a quick way to evaluate someone. But there is no reason why someone who's chaotic can't be a lawyer. Or a lawful person be an insurgent. While they would make someone's approach to those professions be radically different, there is no reason why they should be forbidden from being those "classes".
  
• A firm need to stick to hard science Make the game fun first and scientific second (or third or ...).
  

• Mechs
  
• Kobolds in Space We're everywhere afterall.
  
• OGL alien races I know this is Paizo I'm suggesting this to so I don't really have to worry about this, but I'm just making sure.
  
• Mass Combat/Space Combat/Mass Space Combat Rules as part of the core book I was really hoping for Mass Combat rules as part of the base Pathfinder game, but I understand why it wasn't included. But I'm hopeful that it can be included here.
  
• AI/OrganiTech/GravTech/etc Make the tech cool.
  

Gregg. Call it Gregg.

Please keep the ideas coming. I'll make a decision on Oct 31st-ish. Until then, all entries will be considered.

I found it :
Flameskull

AD&D 2nd Edition : Monster Compendium Annual I, page 50.

D&D 3rd edition : Lost Empires of Faerun, p171.

Ok Paizo board members,

Now that the bestiary is out, I am beginning serious work on monsters. I finished up a piece of artwork yesterday, but I'm not exactly sure what to name it. Submit your name ideas as a reply to this thread or as a comment on my site and if I choose your idea, you will win a free copy of Book of the Faithful I: The Power of Prayer, due out in November.

Good luck and happy gaming.

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You want New Jersey? I don't think anyone's going to fight you for that one. Have fun!

I for one welcome our new Kobold overlords.

...

What? Jersey could benefit from Kobold rule, I think.

Give Newark and the tollway to the kobolds, but leave its many bucolic scenes to the fey and other good creatures.

The truth ain't hate.

I've got my digital copy in my scaly claws. Now back to my lair to look at it from every angle with my fellow koboldic minions and determine how us kobolds can best rule the world. Or at least New Jersey.

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One thing that always bothered me about D&D is that I have seen few characters have any faith beyond those of clerics. There have known a few to buck the trend (some of whom I have played), but the large majority I have known only gave thought to religion during character generation, choosing the obvious choice (i.e. dwarf character takes the main dwarf god, druid choosing the nature god). To help build the role playing aspect of this, what appears to be my first product for the Pathfinder Role Playing Game will help the non-Cleric to make their faith an integral part of their life.

Looking back at the long history of characters I have played, the one that I remember the most fondly were the ones with some major contradiction or non-obvious mashup of ideas. Among them was a fighter that worshiped the god of magic. He came from a family of wizards and wished to be a wizard himself, but was never smart enough to study the arcane arts. That internal conflict kept him interesting and memorable.

In Book of the Faithful I: The Power of Prayer, we explore ways for faithful followers of a deity to tap into a small bit of that divine power without multiclassing. We do this through a familiar mechanics: feats. Prayer Feats, the specific type of feats detailed within, gives a follower a daily reward for faithfully praying to their deity. Whenever a cleric prayers for their spells, the faithful follower must also make a short prayer, not nearly as long or intricate as the cleric. And for that prayer, the god rewards the character one time during the day at a time of the god's choosing, not the character. In game terms, the player chooses when to use the power of the feat at whatever time they feel is most opportune.

Unlike clerics which may choose the majority of their spells from a large collective pool of spells, a god can only grant prayer feats based on the domains the deity may grant their clerics. Below are two that appear in Book of the Faithful I:

Shield of Divine Gust (Prayer)
The gods of air blow a single strike from you.
Prerequisites: Worshiping a deity with the Air Domain
Benefit: Against a single ranged attack per day, you gain a divine bonus to your armor class equal to (1/2 your character level). When multiple ranged weapons work off a single attack roll (such as a Manyshot attack), they count as a single attack.

Vine Skin (Prayer)
The gods of plants make you the protection of a plant against the elements.
Prerequisites: Worshiping a deity with the Plant Domain.
Benefit: Against a single blow per day, you gain resistance to either electricity or fire equal to (1/2 your character level). You may decide to use this and which energy type after a successful attack roll but before damage is rolled.

Upon first glance, these feats may appear overpowered, but they are balanced by the fact these can only be used one time per day. It is the difference between the Maximize Spell feat (which requires the spell occupy a higher spell slot) and the Sudden Maximize Spell Feat (which did not require a higher spell slot but could only be used once per day) from the "Complete" series of book series. In the same way, this gives the character the feeling of being touched by their god without breaking the game.

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The problem you have is explaining how you get a half-dryad. Since all Dryads are female and reproduce with males of other races, aren't dryads by nature always half of something else.

I don't think I understand what that means, which I suppose might be what you're talking about,

(Disclaimer: I am by no means claiming to be an expert on women. As I said above, I"m relying heavily on my gf to make sure the appropriate tone is hit.)

Besides, in making a race that represents "the female experience", you used the character of *Cordelia Chase* as a model? A shallow, somewhat vapid pretty girl of dubious talent (even her friends thought she was a bad actress) who gets caught up in major events but usually relies on other people to save her? For an entire race?

That's... a concept. I think I'm not really getting it

but it just seems like kind of a fix to a problem that isn't there.

Because.

Dryads are a fey race, yes. But like pixies and others, they are their own race.

Probably poor phrasing on my part. I too have known my fair share of female gamers in my time; my girlfriend is among them. When she and I came up with this race, one of the reasons we focused in on its core concept was that she and I both felt that there was little in the world of game of D&D that was expressly designed with the female gamer inmind. Oh sure, there is plenty in all the available material that can/does appeal to women, but how much of it was designed without one of the designers saying "... how can we make this [insert item here] more appealing to women ..." but instead "How can we take experiences common among women that men just 'don't get' and turn it into a race?"

I will admit I am relying heavily upon my girlfriend's (as well as other insight provided by other female gamers) insight to hit the appropriate tone for this race.

Good day Cosmo,

At this time, I must suspend my Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription. I would like to retain my PFRPG subscription. I will in the future resubscribe, but unfortunately that day is not today.

Thank you.

Dale McCoy, Jr.

Link to Minor Race Development Blog: Half-Dryad

This is the first what I hope will be an every other week blog entry. Basickly its going to be taking about the development of whatever it is I happen to be working on for the Pathfinder Role Playing Game. The poll showed the highest interest in Races and Monsters. So lets start with Races since I was working on that earlier this year with only the beta as a guide.

One of the problems that I never felt was really answered was, "There is no race that just scream, 'This race is for women!'" Sure there's the elf/half elf, but neither of these possess the grail-shaped light over their heads to draw in the female gamer. Well with some wonderful inspiration from my girlfriend and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon we're both enjoying thanks to netflix, I found the perfect female to base a race off of: Cordelia. She's social, kicks ass when necessary, a survivalist, possesses indepth knowledge of certain aspects of life, and makes witty remarks. Granted she's not very knowledgeable about many other aspects of life. Oh well. So I leaf through the Monster Manual to find some base of reference for a Cordy-like race. Succubus? No! Not going there ... yet. Dryad is cool. ... The whole "cannot be more than 300 yards away from their tree" thing makes it a major no go. ... How about a half-dryad? Hmmm, potential! I mean what human moral-less man wouldn't want to be with an elf-looking woman that can't follow him back home and find out he's married. Plus they can entangle at will. That's wrong on so many levels, but I think it could work.

So what should a Cordelia-themed half-dryad race have at its disposal. Entangle as a spell like ability would be quite dryad themed. Then there Cordy's native survivalist abilities and she's highly social. Con and Cha and Survival skill bonuses. Definitely an Int penalty. Definitely. She's going to need a natural armor bonus (+1) since she's part dryad and other fey qualities like low light. Maybe the natural armor could be a feat, to keep the race balanced. I'll have to playtest that some. I think that about wraps up the crunch.

How about the fluff? Well they have a Cha bonus so they're pretty and social. They like to make themselves the center of attention. Definitely a Cordelia trait. They can leave the woods and leave their parent stuck at an oak tree. Probably grew up with little change of scenery, except when getting away from the parent. So no matter where they go, they're seeing a whole new world. New possibilities lay before them where ever they go. Sounds like the perfect adventurer race to me. What else?

What about restricting their sorcerer bloodlines to fey only? They can certainly be destined, so keep that one allowable. Well it is possible that their human parent had some infernal or draconic influences. They're fey should overpower such shouldn't it? Possibly, but (to use a cooking metaphor) I don't need to add alot of garlic or oregano to greatly influence the taste of spaghetti sauce. So I think the others should be allowable. Must think more on this.

Please feel free to comment on this. Tell me what you think of this race?

Any more suggestions/votes for Pathfinder Compatible material? Please, insist I work on such.

I appreciate you taking the time to review it. It really was alot of fun to write.

P.s. I look forward to seeing your work.

Hey DM Jeff, how have you been? I've never owned the original Toolbox, although I see, printed in 2002, it might still be of great use as compatible with 3.x games including Pathfinder RPG. I see the new one advertised as "continuing" where the last one left off. What I'd like to know from you is whether the new one includes all of the previous data updated for v.3.5 gaming? Is one in the works and should I wait? Is alderac going Pathfinder RPG? Or, should I just pick up both books now?
Thanks.\

Interesting game worlds in which the PC's can actually function as important members in it.

Poll!

I (Jon Brazer Enterprises) signed the PFRPGCL a while ago and have not yet done anything with it. Now that I feel like I am a bit more established (only a bit, but still) I am looking to expand. Share tell me what you think of the ideas presented in the poll.

Also please share your thoughts, either here or at our website.

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Abbey of the Golden Sparrow is the first in our line of “locale” supplements featuring information for players and Game Masters alike. Locales are places of interest that can be dropped into any fantasy campaign that help bring the setting to life for the already harried GM. Abbey of the Golden Sparrow is designed especially with an eye toward monk characters but there is no reason that another character class might not be living at or visiting the abbey (or make use of many of the new rules presented). No matter the class, players using this text will be able to give their characters that much more background which only enhances the roleplaying experience. Likewise, GMs will find plenty of plot hooks and adventure ideas that can occur either inside the abbey or outside, using the locale as a springboard for adventures nearby.

The supplement begins with a short narrative describing the typical life of an initiate at the abbey. This is followed by the locale’s physical description, history, two local myths, and sample doctrines. Then we get to the rules. New feats as well as new character traits are featured. Following these are a new special material (obsidian), three new magic items, and two signature NPCs of the abbey. In short, you get a grab bag of material that can be used together or separately without hindrance.

This 17-page Pathfinder-compatible pdf is available from OBS, YourGamesNow, and (soon) from Paizo for $4.95!

So go check it out.

Dale C. McCoy, Jr.

Mine arrived earlier today as well. I've been reading it for a bit. This is a damn sweet book.

I just want to take a moment to thank every single man and woman (and golem) at Paizo. This is probably the first time in ... 15+ years that I have actually been excited to play a D&D game. This version that you have presented us with, for some reason, feels more alive than any previous version has ever been. I actually do believe that the new system, even more than the beta, feels like a gritter combat. Maybe its the way special maneuvers reads, I don't know. But genuinely do want to play this like I have no other version of D&D.

Thank you.

37 more hours until I leave for GenCon.

This is a win for gaming, and this is significant. For the past decade I've been concerned that the "only game in town" existed under an extremely large and uncaring corporate entity (even if I for a time worked for said entity). After rounds of nonsensical layoffs and corporate decisions that were misguided and just plain mean spirited, I was losing hope that this industry was ever going to re-balance itself and find some of what it enjoyed under TSR at its height. It was my desire to see the game shift to a company that was run by people who actually played RPGs and worried about the state of the game rather than treating it like it was just another one of many expendable brands. That is not to imply that RPGs are not a business and that the people who work in it do so out of pure altruism, but there is spot where good business decisions meet with good products, as well as the proper respect for the game, the people who originally brought it to life, and those who have worked on it ever since.

Last year everything changed when Paizo committed to a course of action that some decried as misguided, foolish, and destined to fail. "Who still wants to play third edition?" They asked. Paizo asked for the community involvement to tell them what we were looking for in our game, and for a year we told them. Today we are beginning to see the results of this gambit and they are good. We at last have a strong, viable RPG company that is committed to including the players and the fans. After watching them and their products, and after working with them on several Pathfinder AP pieces now, I can say that Paizo is exactly the company I've been hoping would come along and provide some much needed leadership.

Congrats Paizo! You've come a long way from the jettisoned "Periodicals Department" and I look forward to seeing what's next.

Which is better: a decent joke or a really bad pun?

Is it time for lunch yet?

Cable/Satellite TV is highly overrated. Netflixing your boob tube entertainment helps to reclaim your life and game more.

I think you just won the thread (to date).

My friends hot mom mrs harms
Paizo promotional codes (sorry they all expired, but just thought I should post it anyways)
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who is an original law and order cast member.

I have not been to the shooting range in about 7 months.